[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] Include timezone information in build

[Chris Packham]

Hi Tom,

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:38:22PM +1200, Chris Packham wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Recently an eagle-eyed tester pointed out to me that the build time
>> reported in my u-boot build did not match the file timestamp on the
>> server it was stored on. This is because at $dayjob we have a build farm
>> with times set to UTC while the storage server was displaying the local
>> time. In reality the times were the same but the timezones were not and
>> there is no indication in the u-boot version about how to interpret the
>> time.
>>
>> This is my attempt to address the issue by defining U_BOOT_TZ along side
>> U_BOOT_TIME and U_BOOT_DATE. I've kept the TZ portion separate because I
>> thought there might some push pack on changing the version string. For
>> my purposes I can display the TZ separately as long as it is defined by
>> the build process. I've also elected to use %Z instead of %z as I feel
>> that the timezone name is more friendly but that's just a personal
>> preference so I wouldn't object to switching to the numeric
>> representation if others feel strongly.
>
> Concept is fine, I'd actually prefer %z so that the size increase is
> constant at least.  Please do that in a non-RFC v2 and I'll pick it up,
> thanks!

v2 has been sent. After I sent it out of curiosity, I looked up the
POSIX definition of date[1] and it looks as though '%z' is not part of
the spec ('%Z' is). However '%z' is part of the POSIX definition of
strfttime[2]. In practice I'm not sure how much it matters. I know the
GNU date command supports it and it looks like the freebsd one also
does.

I'm not sure which other environments people are using to build
u-boot, hopefully any other environments pass the format string to
strftime(). Just thought I'd bring it up in case someone reports an
issue down the line.

Thanks,
Chris
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[1] - http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/date.html
[2] - http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strftime.html